Walter A. Bell

Walter Andrew Bell (born January 4, 1889 in St. Thomas , Ontario , † 1969 in Pictou County , Nova Scotia ) was a Canadian paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " WABell ".

Life

Bell attended Queen's University in Kingston (Ontario) and Yale University with a Masters degree in 1911. He then worked for the Geological Survey of Canada, interrupted by military service in France during World War I. In 1920 he received his PhD from Yale. 1950 to 1953 he was director of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Studies of the flora of the Carboniferous in Nova Scotia (including Joggins Fossil Cliffs ) made him a supporter of the theory of continental drift. In addition to the Carboniferous Canada and its biostratigraphy, he also studied Meszoic and Cenozoic palaeobotany in Alberta.

In 1965 he received the Logan Medal .

Fonts (selection)

• Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island , British Columbia: Geological Survey of Canada Memoir, 1957
• Uppermost Cretaceous and Paleocene floras of western Alberta , Ottawa: E. Cloutier, King's printer, 1949
• Carboniferous rocks and fossil floras of northern Nova Scotia , Ottawa: E. Cloutier, printer to the King, 1943
• Fossil flora of Sydney coalfield, Nova Scotia , Ottawa: JO Patenaude, ISO, printer to the King, 1938

literature

• Erwin L. Zodrow: Walter A. Bell (Geological Survey of Canada; 1920-1954): Founding father of the Canadian Carboniferous stratigraphy and pioneering briostratigrapher, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 95, 1997, pp. 3-5.
• Peter H. von Bitter: Walter Andrew Bell (1889-1969): Canadian Carboniferous Stratigrapher, Palaeobotanist and Palaeontologist par excellence, Geoscience Canada, Volume 24, 1997, pp 135-142.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter A. Bell in the WorldCat bibliographic database